1. Trevor Bolder was an English rock musician, songwriter and record producer.
12 Facts About Trevor Bolder
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Trevor Bolder is best known for his long association with Uriah Heep and his tenure with the Spiders from Mars, the backing band for David Bowie, although he played alongside a variety of musicians from the early 1970s.
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Trevor Bolder's father was a trumpet player, and other members of his family too were musicians.
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Trevor Bolder first came to prominence in the Rats, which featured fellow Hull musician Mick Ronson on lead guitar.
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In 1971 Bolder was called in to replace Tony Visconti in David Bowie's backing band, which would soon be known as the Spiders from Mars; he subsequently appeared in D A Pennebaker's 1973 documentary and concert movie Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.
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Trevor Bolder "never looked comfortable as a glam-rock mannequin, tottering behind Ziggy Stardust in platform boots and a rainbow-hued outfit of latex and glitter".
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Trevor Bolder went on to play on Mick Ronson's 1974 album Slaughter on 10th Avenue which made the British Top Ten.
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Trevor Bolder worked on the albums Firefly, Innocent Victim, Fallen Angel and Conquest; when the line-up that had recorded the latter disbanded, he alone remained, along with Mick Box, guitarist, founder member, and legal owner of the band's name.
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The attempt to put a new line-up together temporarily stalled; and Trevor Bolder, needing to earn a living, accepted an offer in 1981 to join Wishbone Ash.
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Trevor Bolder had, coincidentally, again swapped places with John Wetton, becoming Wishbone Ash's bass player for their 1982 album Twin Barrels Burning.
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Trevor Bolder died in May 2013 at Castle Hill Hospital in Cottingham from cancer, aged 62.
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Trevor Bolder had undergone surgery for pancreatic cancer earlier that year.